Were You There, Karl Giberson? How Biologos Dismisses the Testimony of the Creator

Recently, I came across an article by Karl Giberson, Vice President of BioLogos, called Creationists Drive Young People Out of the Church. The title refers to his interpretation of the meaning of a Barna survey: Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church. Reason #3 was “Churches come across as antagonistic to science.”

In Giberson’s zeal to paint Bioblical Creationists in traitor’s colors with a standard “smeller’s the feller” argument, he criticizes an apologetics argument that finds its roots in a quote from God Himself.

Would Jesus Affirm Evolution?

I ran across a post from theistic evolutionist Paul Wallace that asks readers to tell him how Christ might answer the question, “Hey Jesus, Creation or evolution?” Paul doesn’t give his opinion directly, of course, but the way he frames the list of possible answers makes it pretty clear which way he might lean.

In any case, option #1 was “Creation. Moses said it. I believe it. That settles it,” a jab at a well-known bumper sticker sentiment.

I like the way one reader responded:

His Church Has Been Participating in Evolution Sunday Since 2009 – But He Doubts His Pastor Knew About It!

 

As I mentioned in a recent post, I decided to call all of the congregations from right here in West Virginia who were slated to participate in atheist Dr. Michael Zimmerman’s infamous Evolution Weekend to confirm whether they were in fact participating. The results were a bit surprising, to say the least.

One of the churches we commented on was Cross Lanes United Methodist Church. As noted in my earlier post, when I contacted the pastor of this church, he was surprised to say the least. Rev. Gregory Hayes said his church had never participated in Evolution Weekend and that the contact person on the Clergy Letter Project website was merely a deacon. Regarding evolution, he stated, “That’s an argument we’re simply not interested in.”

Evolution Weekend 2012 Is Pretty Much A Bust Here In West Virginia

It just ain’t happening, folks.

On a whim, I decided to call all of the congregations from right here in West Virginia who were slated to participate in atheist Dr. Michael Zimmerman’s infamous Evolution Weekend to confirm whether they were in fact participating. I hadn’t heard anything [at all] from the seven churches and synogogues listed on the Clergy Letter Project’s website regarding their Evolution Weekend and Evolution Sunday events, and that made me the slightest bit suspicious. So a week ago, I pulled the list of WV churches off the Clergy Letter Project’s website and I contacted all of them, one by one.

And I found out that not one of them is actually participating in Evolution Weekend 2012. 

Underminers: The Self-Defeating Proposition of Compromising Scripture With Millions of Years of Evolution

Imagine you are in command of military forces defending a castle. You have lots of things to worry about. Your enemy will use catapults and trebuchet to hurl rocks, incendiary devices, hornet’s nests and plague-ridden horse carcasses over your walls. They will use battering rams to bash in your fortified gates. They will scale your walls with ladders, hooks and siege towers. They will send swarms of arrows over your walls. They will do everything in their power to reduce the number of defenders and find a way inside.

Most notoriously, the enemy will send sappers, engineers whose sole aim is to dig under your walls and fortifications to either weaken them so that they fall or simply to create a tunnel passage by which enemy troops can invade a castle from within.

Ark Wars: No, Kentucky Is Not Taking Money From Public Schools And Giving It To the Ark Encounter

I unapologetically support the Ark Encounter.

The Ark Encounter will, among other things, display a full-sized Ark based on the Scriptural account to demonstrate the feasibility of the Genesis Flood account and counter the erroneous doubt-creating cultural image of a cutesy bathtub toy Ark with two girraffes sticking out the top. One would suppose that Christians would want to support such a venture, since it underscores the historical reliability and authority of the Bible. Yet they repeat the misrepresentations of the atheist mockers!

Deflating Dobzhansky’s Grand Assumption, Revisited: Is the Assumption Still Necessary?

Recently, a fellow Appalachian objected to my use of a 1937 quote from Theodosius Dobzhansky based on an implied appeal to novelty. An appeal to novelty is the fallacious assumption that just because something is newer, it must be better or more true than something older. He basically asked, given my 1937 quotation, whether I would also use 1937 medical science and then accused me of supposing that science “never changes, never gathers evidences, never formalizes a hypothesis into a theory” because I did not use a more recent quote. I know, I know… it’s a bad argument, but let’s make this an educational experience.